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Amis, Martin
(1949-2023) UK journalist and author, son of Kingsley Amis; both father and son, perhaps unusually, achieving a similar eminence in the same field (and both dying at the age of 73); he wrote many reviews as by Henry Tilney. From the first his novels threaten and distress their protagonists – and their readers – with narrative displacements that undermine consensual reality, so that moments of normality in his work are, like as not, intended to ...
Matson, Norman
(1892-1965) US author now best known for his completion, after the death of Thorne Smith, of the latter's The Passionate Witch (1941), capturing Smith's melancholy, mildly madcap, sentimentally erotic style very neatly, despite touches of unSmithian sourness. Matson also wrote a sequel, Bats in the Belfry (1943). A film, I Married a Witch (1942), and the television series Bewitched (1964-1972) were loosely ...
Sirius Visions
US Semiprozine published eight times a year "on the ancient Celtic holidays" by Claddagh Press, Portland, Oregon, edited by Marybeth O'Halloran. It began with an advance preview issue, Winter 1993, and then ran for eight formal issues, August 1994 to June 1995. The first four issues and the advance one were in large-tabloid format (really double letter size), 16 pages, but from issue #5 (February 1995) switched to the more standard (and more easily readable) ...
Marr, Andrew
(1959- ) Scottish broadcaster, journalist, editor and author, active mostly in England, primarily with the BBC from 2000. His first novel, Head of State (2014), is a political thriller set in a modestly Near Future 2017, with Charles III on the throne, Hillary Clinton the President of the USA, and a charismatic prime minister about to win a referendum confirming UK's continuing membership in the European Union. The concealing ...
Keohane, Daniel G
(1963- ) US author who has also published as by Dan Keohane and G Daniel Gunn, most of his work being horror. He began to publish work of genre interest with "Incineration" in Cemetery Sonata (anth 1999) edited by June Hubbard; his first novel, Solomon's Grave (2009), describes with hints of Time Abyss the search for an ancient secret whose revelation may spell doom. Destroyer of Worlds (2012) as by ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...